Unusal names harm a child's future success?

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

My best friend is still quite a ways from having kids, but her and her boyfriend have decided to name one of their future daughters Nizani (niz-awhn-ee). It means 'miracle' in some Native American language (she is half native and he has some native background).

Personally, it reminds me of lasagna. I've mentioned it to her a few times, but she's still pretty set on it. Which brings me to my question, when a person has a particularly unusual name, say; Nizani...who wold hire them? When you phone for reservations, will people think you're joking?


Is it harmful to a child's future success to have a strange name?

Comments

[auxoriousrex.livejournal.com]

wow you're pretty closed minded. It's a lovely name that obviously has a lot of meaning to your friend.

My name is Sheera and I lead a pretty successful life and I'm not just another Jennifer, Emily, or Sarah.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

LOL I guess. I dunno, it just sounds like lasagna to me, and I read an article once about employers not hiring people with strange names/ unisex names; I was just curious how much truth there was to that.

[ollivander.livejournal.com]

when it comes down to it, it's not your kid, and she's just going to get pissed off at you for telling her that her favorite name sounds like lasagna when it totally doesn't

[6a696c6c.livejournal.com]

"i read an article once about employers not hiring people with strange names/ unisex names"

one article once, eh? that is entirely untrue.